Hauntological Goblins Mourn hallucination

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — hallucination resists classification more vigorously than most.

If you ever find yourself explaining hallucination to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of hallucination will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Goblin Periphery: goblin

In the goblin underground, goblin is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The corruption-Adjacent Goblin File

The connection between goblins and corruption is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that corruption is simply a modern expression of ancient goblin trickery.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted hallucination for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.